Nigersaurus, the Darth Vader vacuum cleaner of the Cretaceous
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Nigersaurus, the Darth Vader vacuum cleaner of the Cretaceous.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new Psittacosaurus species from Mongolia, amitabha, was described with gastroliths and a great skull
- A 10 year old boy in Guangdong Province, China stumbled upon a nest of 11 dinosaur eggs
- A college student In North Dakota found a Triceratops skull while on a paleontology dig
- Visitors to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science can now see volunteers working on preparing a Triceratops on their lab
- A 6.6 ft (2 m) long sauropod femur was found near Cognac, France
- In New York, on Long Island, two new attractions recently opened up at the WAC Lighting Hall of Science
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know, Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.0 | This week in our 246th episode, we have a bunch of news, including a new species of satacosaurus and new finds |
| 0:58.1 | coming in from all over the place. Hooray for the summer dig season. Oh yeah. It's a good time |
| 1:05.2 | to be out digging. It is. But these are always like the preliminary. We found something and get back to us in a year or two once we scrape it all out of the rock in a lab and figure out what it is, sort of news items. |
| 1:19.5 | And we also have Dinosaur of the Day, Nigerosaurus. |
| 1:23.1 | I also want to mention real quick that we're traveling, so we're recording a couple episodes early, |
| 1:28.7 | and so that means there'll probably be a landslide of news in episode 248 and or 249, |
| 1:35.6 | because that's when we get back and we'll have to rapidly catch up. |
| 1:39.6 | And then episode 250 is going to be a special bone wars episode, which has been requested lots of times. |
| 1:46.4 | And Sabrina has been digging through tons of books. |
| 1:50.2 | Luckily, she's an incredibly fast reader, so she's been reading like a book a day about the Bone Wars, getting ready for it. |
| 1:57.5 | There's a lot to know. |
| 1:58.7 | There is. |
| 1:59.3 | She's been sharing little tidbits with me, |
| 2:01.5 | but she's going to be our bone wars expert from now on, I think. Before we get into the episode, |
| 2:09.1 | we always like to thank some of our patrons. And this week, we'd like to thank Scotty, |
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